The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-18
THE INwARDNEss EXPOSED.

OeIOfc the mouse, many attempts were
mace 10 amend it. The amendments
were offered. not by friends of Nor
mons, but by gentlemen who had a
little sense OF justice, and who thought
that while the Mormons were perhaps,
properly the victims of every thief and
scrub who wants to plumber and perse-
cute, there should be limit beyond
which malice ought not to 20, even in
The case Of the MoImons. Tucker held
the gag on everybody, and refused to
permit any of those amendments to be
voted on. Two were presented by him
self and of course were adopted as they
made the proposed law more vicious
than it had been drawn originally. Mr.
Scott, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment, which like'the others, was
ruled out. 1t was printed in our Wash
ingtoh special on the 14th instant,
and is reproduced here:
That this act shall not take effect till six
months after its approval by the President,
and there shall be an election held in the
several precincts of said Territory on the
third Monday in March, 1887 at which the
qualified electors of the said Territory NAV
elect from each legislative district, double
the number of delegates they are entitled
70 elect OF councillors and representatives
TO the Legislative Assembly Of said Terri
tory, and the delegates so elected shall meet
at SALT Lake City, on the first Monday of
April, 1887, at u o'clock noon, and shall
form constitutional convention, and if said
convention shall form and adopt q con-
sntuuon, rtpublican in form, and
which shall prohibit polygamy in said State,
and the same shall be ratified by majority
OF the votes cast by the qualified electors at
an election. to be held for that purpose in |
the several precincts of that Territory, ON
the inst Monday of June, 1887: then The |
provisions OF this act shall continue to re-
main imperative until such constitution |
shall be presented in the usual manner and |
acted on by Congress- The elections herein |
provided Tor, are to be he d, conducted and |
returns lhereot made in the manner now |
provided by law for the holding of elections |
for county and precinct officers in said Ter |
rltory, and all acts and parts of acts in COZ |
hlct with the provisions of this section |
snail and Will remain imperative until the |
expiration OF said six months, and in the.
case OF the ption and ratification of said
constitution, as hereinbefore provided, the
said provisions shall remain imperative
until action on said constitution by Con-
gress.
The only people who can conscien-
uously object to the above are the Nor
mons. They can object because il
would require them to put in the CON
stitution as a condition of statehood a
clause forbidding the practice of what
they hold to be portion of their reIi-
gious faith and doctrines. 1t isun-
I, pub!ican, unfair, unjust and un-con-
stitutional for Congress to impose any
other condition upon people forming
a State, than that the Constitution
shall be Republican in form.
Yet, Notwithstanding the Nor
mons, in order to get into
the Union through the OPP, ration of the
Scott Amendment, would have to de-
clare against and vote down doctrine
of their religion, the opposition to the
amendment, so far, has all come from
the antiMormons. The men who have
done most to bring the Edmunds-
Tucker bill to its pre- ent forward posi-
ton and condition are loudest in their
denunciation of the amendment, and
most fearful that the clause will vet be
insert d and acted upon favorably by
Congress. This fact alone expresses the
true inwardness of the raid on this
community, and tells the story of the
motive of the men who are working so
industriously to bring about this in
famous legislation. Under the pro-
posed law, Utah as Territory, will be
the victim Of a clique of unpriucipled
adventures; they viii have the offices,
the making and the administering of
the laws, the control of the treasury,
and the authority and the power to
Cypress persons. L is not Yl,lvg-
amy they want to suppress, but it
is the money of polygamists they are
greedy to finger. If the amendment
were adopted, and constitution con
tanning the prohioitory clause were
framed by the convention and ratified
by the people, polygamy would be
stopped; but the adventures would be
unhappy, because they would not have
the profitable fun of plundering tie
community. If the anti Mormons were
honest in Their profession that It is po-
lygamy they are desirous OF Suppress
ing, they would favor measures looking
- that end, rather than advocate
schemes which are based on robbery and
deprivation of personal rights.
The character Of the raid On the Nor
mons, and the purpose of the raiders.
are exposed 10 intelligent Congressman i
like Scott, whe1 q proposition ike his
which has for its object the curing of
the only evil agains. which Congress
claims the rightto legislate, is opposed
by the men leading the crusade against
the Saints.